Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
In nature there are few sharp lines
In nature there are few sharp lines.
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world
There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Only silence perfects silence
Only silence perfects silence.